The Lost Diary Of Don Juan: An account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love - Tapa dura

This novel really does sho Don Juan in a fresh and much more attracive light (Emma Strickland WATERSTONE'S BOOK QUARTERLY)

bodice-ripping jaunt (Christina Patterson THE SPECTATOR)

A Da Vinci Code- ish romp set in 16th-century Seville (THE INDEPENDENT)

An editor receives a manuscript purporting to be the lost diary of history's greatest lover, Don Juan. An orphan left on the steps of a covent, Don Juan grew up within the church but his ambitions towards the priesthood fell to the wayside when he was seduced by a young nun. Evicted from the convent, he was taken under the wing of the libertine Don Pedro, the Marquis of Mota, who coached him in skills both courtly and amorous and then employed him as a spy at court. So began a life devoted to giving and receiving pleasure. But Abrams' Don Juan is no playboy; instead Don Juan's mastery of the arts of passion liberates the women he beds. Through his connections with Don Pedro, he is made an 'hidalgo', an honorary nobleman, and is therefore protected from the wrath of the Inquisition by the King, but his position is precarious. Then Don Juan embarks on the most perilous adventure of all - he falls in love, and finds that not only his reputation but also his life is in danger.